Picaresque

Picaresque is the adjective to describe writings about a common or low character who survives the pitfalls of life through luck or good fortune. My travels, interests, my animals, my photographs, my wonderful friends and family are featured.

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Location: Arapahoe, Wyoming, United States

(Note: Blogs read from bottom to top; scroll down for beginnings, scroll up for most current.) After 30 years in public administration and four degrees, as well as numerous workshops with luminaries in Education and Public Policy, life in a slower lane became a goal. Most recently I have done policy writing and consulting for the Northern Arapaho and Eastern Shoshone Tribes. Mostly, I am just coasting slowly and gently downhill these days-seeking joy where I can find it before the glorious ride ends.

Monday, May 11, 2009

"Never Mind"

Emily Litella Day around here: I called Verizon for a couple of reasons and asked about my future with them. I am going nowhere. If you have had Verizon service for more than a year, you are likely not an Alltel or RRC customer subject to divestiture. Casper gets the iPhones, I get to stick with Verizon which suits me just fine. I have an iPod touch that was a gift from the Florida kids so I have all the benefits without a phone. I can pretend I am talking on it IF I ever run into somebody that I want to impress. (Impressing people and me are not mutually compatible concepts anymore.) The MotoQ has some really good features the iPhone does not.


Surfing the web this morning, I discovered the Old 844 steam engine is making its way across Wyoming in commemoration of the joining of the Transcontinental Railroad. It was to be in Rock Springs at 3:00 p.m. so dogs and cameras were hastily loaded. I drove Raymond's mail route nightly for a couple of months so I know the road well and thought I could slide in just in the nick of time. A thirty minute construction stop disabused me of that notion so we took an alternate route home "Never Mind." I could try for 10:00 tomorrow in Rawlins but I think I won't.